Given name

Anicia

Anicia is a feminine given name.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Anicia is a variant of Anisha. An origin associated with Anisha is Hindi.

Explained through its name family

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Anicia through the years

Babies since 1880
627
0 boys · 627 girls
Most popular year
2003
29 babies
2025
5
#15,134 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−46%
Cooling
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Anicia in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1967–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,134 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 29 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 910 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Anicia’s family of names

Anicia has a related form in Anisha.

Walk Anicia’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 3

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Anicia

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Sibling ideas

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